Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue

by Ed Pavlic, Adrienne Rich (Introduction)

Overview

APR First Book Prize winner. Energetic language and mature presence mark this beautiful, disturbing debut.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780966339574
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Publication date:	09/01/2001
Series:	APR Honickman 1st Book Prize
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Adrienne Rich is poet, essayist, and one of America's most widely read and respected literary figures. She has been a life-long activist for women's issues.

Table of Contents

	Masqualero	3
	Imbroglio & Cuadrilla	5
	Sacred Rum Toes	6
	Confessions of a Piano Roll Lover	9
	Communique, from on High	17
	Is It a Crime?	18
	You Sound Unseen	21
	Wanted: Thief	27
	Full Blown	29
	Spring Run Off	31
	Bedtime Stories	34
	Lights Out	39
	1955	41
	More Here Than Gone	53
	False Ceilings	55
	Karmen	63
	Isatine Blues	64
	Spheres	69
	Guerrilla Calligraphy	74

Editorial Reviews

Selected by Adrienne Rich for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Pavlic's debut offers in return the musical cadences and lulls of experience: a lover's touch "gone to silence at the bottom/ of the pool. Rhythms, strings of the nidi/ travel thru bone// & in flesh waves without a goose/ ripple in my skin." Pavlic, who teaches in the English Department at Union College, spins endless synaesthesic trills, a seeming poetic signature (a "paraph" is a script flourish): "orange glow from inside the log, flakes waft like trout gills/ in a blue stream of smoke & I can't tell an ash limb/ from wood that breathes." (Oct.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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